Course Materials | Science Writing

Handouts of Classroom Course Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5	*Handouts Online course* Lecture 1 The Writing Process Lecture 2 The Writing Process Lecture 4 Story Lines Intro and Disc *About science writing* Prepare your writing- Tiny Steps How to Write Your First Research Paper The Joy of Writing How to Overcome Writer’s Block Timemanagement Tips for writing Useful Phrases Wallwork book How to Write a Literature Review 1 How to Write a Literature Review 2 How to read a review paper The Abstract Writing Cover Letters for Scientific Manuscript Notes on Writing a Paper Making Tables and Figures Summary of The Science of Science WritingEssay The Curse of Knowledge by Steven Pinker Ten Principles Helen Sword: Stylish Academic Writing Summary Writing Tips October 2019 Reader English For Publication How to Write a paper_George M Hall BMJ A checklist for improving abstracts Reading Tips Metaphors in Science Writing a qualitative research paper
*Blogs* https://thesiswhisperer.com/ https://patthomson.net/ http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/writingforresearch/ https://medium.com/@write4research http://www.raulpacheco.org/blog/
*Writing Tools* Question Tool Introduction Question Tool Discussion Prepare your writing- Tiny Steps Transitional Words and Phrases COREQ: Questions for Reporting Qualitative ResearchOutlining your paper Templates for observational studies How to start the discussion Outline 1 Main questions Outline 2 More detailed questions Outline 3 Short answers
*Websites* The Swales Moves Website The Manchester Phrasebank Academic Phrasebank The Writer’s Diet Readability Formulas The Hemingway App Look Through your Text – Voyant-tools.org Words per Sentence Tool	*Articles* 1. Plenty of Moustaches 2. Happiness in your Network 3. Essay: The Curse of Knowledge (by Steven Pinker) 4a The Darwin Awards full text 4b The Darwin Awards I-M-R 5. Use of Positive and Negative Words in Science 6. Impact of Spin (Boutron) 7. Spin in Published Biomedical Literature (Chiu) 8. BMJ Emoji in medical literature 9. Sparse MRI (style best practice)10. No time to die
*Answer Keys* Plenty of Moustaches Answer Key -Exercise 6 The topic sentence Answer Key – Exercise 7 Key sentences in Happiness article Answer Key – Exercise 9 Four tools of cohesion Answer Key – Exercise 10 Passive or active Answer Key – Exercise 12 Passive explanation

Handouts Online course